The Clippers Curse Vol. 47, Booker’s Evolution, and Round 1 Bets With Kevin Wildes and Eddie Johnson

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin Wildes of Fox Sports to discuss Anthony Davis's comments on the Lakers’ flukey injuries, the Clippers' repeated bad luck, Bill’s favorite Round 1 bets, Half-Baked Ideas, and more (2:10). Then Bill talks with Phoenix Suns play-by-play analyst Eddie Johnson about Devin Booker’s MVP case and why he is nowhere near his ceiling as a player, advice Eddie would give to Ben Simmons, the obstacles that today's NBA stars face, stories from Eddie's 17-year NBA career, and more (1:01:37). Host Bill Simmons Guests: Kevin Wildes and Eddie Johnson Producers: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Ian Wright. Make sure you check out my podcast.
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0:14.0	Take it easy.
0:17.0	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network. Put up a new episode of the prestige TV podcast yesterday.
0:22.0	Me and Chris Ryan and Big Waz covered the last couple episodes of Winning Time.
0:28.0	On HBO show that has really found it stride. We explained why we tried to make predictions for the last four.
0:33.0	If you check in that show out, you should go check out that episode because I thought we covered everything.
0:38.0	The prestige TV pod in general, covering Atlanta every week, better call saw.
0:42.0	We're starting deep dives next week. We're into Winning Time the rest of the way.
0:45.0	We have Barry coming with a very special guest on that one. We have the week. We crashed season finale.
0:51.0	We have we own this city coming up into April, which is basically the spiritual successor to the wire.
0:57.0	And then the offer, which I'm really excited about. I've seen the pilot of it is about the making of the Godfather.
1:03.0	So all of that is coming. It is going to be a loaded feed the rest of the way.
1:07.0	So please check it out because if you like three watchables and he likes some of our pop culture stuff, I would recommend the prestige TV podcast coming up on this podcast.
1:19.0	Old friend Kevin Wilds, we're going to talk we'll talk all kinds of NBA stuff and he's going to do some have baked ideas.
1:26.0	I am going to give my playoff picks and last but not least the great Eddie Johnson.
1:34.0	Long time NBA player, you can hear him with just in term, the unserious NBA show.
1:40.0	I show that I really like and he's going to tell us about the Suns, Devon Booker, talk about life in the 80s, a whole bunch of stuff.
1:46.0	I really had fun with that one. This is a good podcast. It's on next first project.
2:10.0	Alright, my old friend Kevin Wilds is here. He's still worked together a million years ago. He is on first things first on FS1.
2:18.0	He is the master of the half baked ideas. He is somebody who is on my side as we predicted Tom Brady would not go away that he was immortal.
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